Building-block



C. C. .WORTHINGTONLr BUILDiNG BLOCKy APFLICATION FILED FEB. 6|19\B. v 1,400,709. Patented Dec. y1921 will CHARLES C. WORTHINGTON, OF DUNNFIELD, NEYV TERSEY.

BUILDING-BLOCK.

Application filed February 6, 1918.

.To 0.7/ yifi/ioni 'It 'muy con/'cm Bc it known that l, ('ninnns t. Won'rnixtfroN. linited States citizen. residing in Dunnlield. New Jersey. have invented the following described improvements iii luilding-Blocks.

The invention consists in the structure ol' a composite building block comprising an orgztnization oli stonelikc body walls suited to carry load and a sol'ter material-into which nails can be driven. both materials being specially combined to lgive maximum strength and stability to the wall constructed o'liI such blocks while providing a maximum area ol' nailing surl'ace on one or both sides o'l' such wall to which Furi-ing and laths may be nailed and also providing a building elenient which can be cheaply and quickly made by ordinary methods and readily set up without the exercise ot special care or skill.

In the acconipanying drawings:

Figure l is a horiz/.ontal section through the preferred l'orm ol' block indicating thn relation ol the l'urringl and lath and plaster on opposite sides:

Fig. E2 a side elevation ot: a portion ol a wall built ol' such blocks:

Fig. Il a horizontal section ot' a modilicd forni; and

Fig. `lis an ele\ation o1" a portion ol' a wall constructed olr the blocks of Fig. 3.

In Figs. 1 and the holly ol the block is rectangular. about twite as long as wide, and lornied with two equal adjacent rectangular cavities opening respectively on its opposite sides. cach cavity being of a depth somewhat less than the thickness olE the block and ot such width and thickness as to make all the wall.s ol the block ol substantially unit'orrn thickness throughout, especially the vertical walls, to wit the walls l. L2 and 8 which extend transversely ofV the block and the walls 4; and 5 which extend longitudinally thereof. The top and bottom walls are a so tlesirably of the saine thickness. Such block bodies may be made olf an ordinary mixture ot' lortland cement and sand or of other twictilc material having the requisite strength for building purposes. The two cavities are filled flush with the edges with a nailing compound (3 which may be a. mixture ofV cement, sand and wood sawdust or any other nailing compound of which several kinds are known to the trade., and this 'material may be introdimcd in any Specification of Letters Patent.

rai ent-ea nep. zo, i921.

Serial No. 215,721.

suitable way. preferably by casting it therein in a plastic condition and allowing it to set. rlhe blocks are then ready l'or use and may be laid up in quite the same manner as customary with hollow tile or other building blocks but keeping the exposed VFaces ol ille masses ol' nailing compound exposed on opposite sides ol thc wall. llach side ol the resulting masonary wall will thus present substantially the appearance indicated in Fig. i5 wherein the nailing spaces are distributed unilormly and at lreducnt inten vals over the entire area. Furring strips T can therelore be nailed to such a wall with great rapidity and with all the nails neces sary l'or secure attachment to the` mason work. They may be nailed ylo both sides` ol' such a wall as indicated in Fig. l to give the usual air space. intervening between the blocks and the laths (H) on both sides.

In Figs. Il and l the stone like block body is lformed with cavities ol` the same character.` but opening on the saine side ot the blo'k thus providing the same number ol vertical walls. l, 2, l, l" and 5 all oll uni- Yt'orm thickness. but exposing all the surl'aces olE the nailing material on the saine side ol' the block. There the exterior ot' the wall to be built is to be lelt plain or covered with stucco directly applied to It. these blocks may be used and laid up with all the nailing surfaces laced to the interior as indicated in Fig. 4 thus giving alarger proportion oli nailing surl'ace than indicated in Fig. 2 but with substantially the same strength olf structure. In other cases these blocks may he laid up with the nailingl surfaces o'l contiguous blocks laced in opposite directions as indicated in Fig. 3. thas dividing and distributing the total nailing surface equally between the opposite sides ot. the wall and giving substantially an equivalent extent ot' nailing surl'aee to the t'orni first described.

ln both forms the block comprises a rulinber of vertical, load-resisting walls each one of uniform thickness and a mass ol nailing compound embraced on at least three sides by such walls and firmly seated or anchored therein or thereto. The vertical walls l, 2 and 3 eccnr at frequent intervals in the constructed wall but are not alone depended on lor carrying the vertical load inasmuch as the verti l.al back walls -l and 5, and fl and 5a, ol` the cavities can also carry a proportionate share of the load7 besides serving as bottoms to the cavities when receiving the nailing compound.

l am avare that it hasheretofore been proposed to fill recesses in concrete and other objects with a soft material into which nails may be driven, but my invention is distinguished from such prior uses by the fact that it is a building,T block intended and adapted to be laid up With other similar blocks in a novel Wall construction to provide uniformly distributed nailing surfaces over the Whole of one 0r both sides of suchA Wall according to preference and without involving any7 structural Weakness in such wall by reason of the presence of the soft material representing the nailing compound and also because it possesses the various other characteristics set forth in the following claims:

l. As a new article of manufacture, a building block comprising a rectangular body of stonelike material cast With horizontal rectangular cavities formed by avplurality 0f vertical cross Walls, which are disposed perpendicular to the face of the block and also by vertical longitudinal back Walls .forming the backs of the cavities, one of said vertical Walls being a partition Wall between adjacent cavities, each of said Walls being of uniform thickness and a fictile nailing material cast in position in each of said cavities to be ex osed on the surface of the wall constructedD of such blocks substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The new airticle of manufacture set forth in claim l wherein the surfaces of the nailing` material are exposed in opposite directions.

3. In buildingv construction, a wall struc* ture comprising assembled composite building' blocks, each comprisinrgT a fictile stonelike material cast with vertical' side and back Walls forming a horizontally opening cavity and `a iictile 'nailable material cast in the cavity and exposed on the face of the block, the surfaces of such nailable material being of greater thickness than the thickness of the cavity side Walls and being also disposed at regularly recurring intervals over the surfaces of the Wall structure,

vertically and horizontally, and adapting,

furring` strips to be secured at random thereon by nailing into saidsurfaces.

In testimony whereof, l have signed this specification.

CHARLES G. WURTHENGTCUN. 

